DEMOCRATS PANDER TO MINORITY RACISTS

By David C. Grossack Updated: 3/13/2005

This week President Bush struck a powerful blow for human rights and the Equal Protection of Law when he instructed the Department of Justice to provide legal support for a group of academically qualified white students denied admission to the law school of the University of Michigan for no other reason than their chance of birth to white parents.

So-called Affirmative Action plans are extremely damaging to our national unity, to the civil rights of white people and, perhaps most importantly, to the best interests of African Americans and Hispanic Americans.

Affirmative Action plans operate on the assumption that certain minorities are incompetent to qualify for some academic and employment positions on their own, itself a racist assumption.

The end result is that less qualified minorities become students and professionals and are understood by everybody else to be just that, less qualified. In other words, people will be afraid to be treated by black physicians or represented by Hispanic lawyers out of fear that they are in their profession on the basis of their race and not merit. The result is that most of these minorities will be employed by the employer of last resort, the government. That is not progress.

A more just means of redressing the past injustices to minorities is to implement a strict merit programs where past academic performance of an individual is the chief criteria for graduate school admission and it is illegal to ask about race, national origin or religion in an application.

Affirmative Action leads inevitably to quotas, to resentment and to the spread of extremism. White victims of affirmative action realize that they are victims of racism, that they are denied advancement on the basis of race while the minorities gain advancement on the basis of race. The result is that thousands of white males have been made receptive to white supremacist and Klan demagoguery and it is easy to see why.

Their response is as predictable as a chemical reaction in a laboratory setting. If you persecute people and pit them against another group who is favored over them, the victims will feel resentment against all of the parties involved.

This is not the first time in history it has happened.

Although this is not discussed in polite company or in politically correct history, quotas were also in fact greatly to blame for the collapse of Czarist Russia and the triumph of the Bolshevik Revolution. Under the Czar, something called the numerus clausus restricted the numbers of Jews to be admitted to schools and colleges to about ten percent, which was devastating to economic advancement of that group.

Filled with resentment against the Czar, disenfranchised Jews, with ability, intellect and ambition, out of desperation, in significant numbers threw their lot in with Lenin and Trotsky who promised them equality. Still millions of others left Russia for the US, Palestine and other lands, bringing skills and ability to other countries that would have otherwise helped Russia.

A Czarist Russia in which Jews were not discriminated against would have had a much better chance of survival. Now in America, because Jews rely so much on education for access to the economy, they find themselves discriminated against again, this time by liberals who repeat the folly of the Czar. (Of course, when the Communists were well entrenched in power they reinstated quotas.) The author's grandparents were among those Jews who had had it with the Czar and his policy of religious discrimination, and voted with their feet.

In any event, the end result now is that millions of Americans feel resentment towards the minorities who, with government sanction, are treated as specially privileged for no other reason than the random luck of their birth. When you feel disenfranchised in your own country, revolution and terrorism have been historically popular options. The armed revolts against white settler regimes in South Africa and Rhodesia by disenfranchised Africans are other examples.

People looking to politicians for answers can be satisfied that President Bush has taken the sensible road, that of aggressively confronting the racists in the court.

Unfortunately, Democratic Senate Leader Thomas Daschle of South Dakota who speaks for his party has taken the opposite position. Daschle has announced his support for the racist policy of Affirmative Action and his opposition to the Bush Justice Departments intervention on behalf of the white applicants to the University of Michigan.

I understand that the Democratic Party is ideologically liberal, relies on minority votes and the donations of wealthy liberal elites who have not learned a thing from history. But they must put politics aside and think about the future of America. If Affirmative Action is allowed to continue, intergroup relations among whites, blacks and Hispanics can be expected to deteriorate badly. In a bad economy, this can precipitate very violent extremist reactions. When one looks at the break up of Yugoslavia and the bloodbaths that raged there for nearly a decade, one must understand that America can only handle so much before it falls into that abyss.